GARY Neville has predicted more new arrivals at Manchester United this summer as the Red Devils look to use their Carling Cup triumph as a platform for sustained success.

United's four-goal show at the Millennium Stadium not only proved enough to beat a battling Wigan outfit, but also stave off the unhappy prospect of successive seasons without a trophy.

The Old Trafford outfit have not endured two barren years on the trot since before Neville moved into the senior ranks.

And, while the League Cup will still be ranked fourth out of four in United's list of priorities at the start of next season, Neville reckons the competition could prove vital in injecting a sense of belief into Sir Alex Ferguson's emerging squad.

Contrary to all the doom merchants who claim United's time at the top is now at an end, Neville is upbeat about the future.

However, after lifting his first trophy as captain barely two months after stepping into the role vacated by Roy Keane, the 31-year-old is honest enough to accept deficiencies in midfield he anticipates Ferguson will address before the new campaign gets underway next August.

"This team has potential," he said.

"We are not at our peak yet but I have no doubt we will get there in the next couple of years or so.

Decimated

"I have no doubt either the manager will add to the squad this summer.

"If you look at the midfield, we have been absolutely decimated. We have lost Paul Scholes, Quinton Fortune and Alan Smith, and we also lost Roy Keane. You cannot account for losing so many class players in one area.

"That is why I imagine there will be additions to what we feel is already a strong squad."

It is an opinion shared by Giggs, who was with Neville on a three-man shortlist as potential United skipper until Ferguson plumped for the defender.

Both men were part of the famed `Class of 92' which proved to be such a bedrock of United's success over the past decade.

With David Beckham, Nicky Butt and Phil Neville all departed, the pair, together with Scholes, provide the only playing links between United's glorious recent past and a bright new future.

Giggs is confident the current crop can carry him at least level with former Liverpool man Phil Neal, the most decorated player in English soccer history with 17 major medals, two more than the United man has now amassed.

"I certainly hope this squad can emulate the `Class of 92'," said Giggs.

"We have got a relatively young team and what this victory has done is give players who have not won a trophy a taste of success.

"The build-up to the final, getting to the final, seeing the crowds in the stadium and eventually winning it, makes you want it more and more. Hopefully it will happen with these players."